David Fine, Student Governing Board chair, discusses SGB’s vote not to comply with the bureaucratic new policy.

ABC joins SGB in rejecting Barnard fliering policy
BY LILLIAN CHEN
Spectator Senior Staff Writer
After the Student Governing
Board’s executive board voted
on Sunday not to comply with
Barnard’s bureaucratic new fliering policy, the Activities Board at
Columbia followed suit and club
leaders voiced their support on
Monday.
Beginning this semester, fliers, posters, and event notices on
Barnard’s campus must carry a
stamp from the college’s student
life office. But at a meeting of
Barnard’s Student Government
Association, chairs of the governing boards, which allocate funds
for and advocate for student
groups, called the policy an instance of administrative overreach.
“It adds on an additional layer
of bureaucracy for student groups
who are just trying to program
their events and advertise so that
as many people as possible from
both Columbia and Barnard can
come,” ABC president Saketh
Kalathur, CC ’13, said.
Barnard’s Office of Student
Life did not respond to requests
for comment on Monday.
The SGB executive board said
in a statement that Barnard created
this new requirement “to prevent

the proliferation of non-student
related flyers on campus and to
actively prevent the occurrence of
‘bias incidents’ in violation of the
university’s Community Principles
Initiative.” But SGB chair David
Fine, CC ’13 and a Spectator sports
columnist, described the policy on
Sunday as a “case of good intentions executed very, very wrongly.”
SGB’s executive board decision will only come into effect if
the general body votes in favor of
noncompliance at SGB’s town hall
in December, but ABC’s decision
is effective immediately, a move
that Kalathur hopes will force the
administration to act quickly.
“Our hope is not that student
group leaders will need to spend
the rest of the year breaking
Barnard’s rules,” Kalathur said on
Monday. “Our hope is that this will
send a message to Barnard about
how serious we are about protecting the interests of our groups and
how serious we are about making
sure that our voices are heard before any changes occur.”
SGB representative Mel
Meder, BC ’14, said on Sunday
that the restrictions on fliering
have alienated Barnard students.
“I’m really disappointed to
see a policy that discourages
groups from posting on Barnard’s

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campus,” she said. “We had heard
from some of our groups that this
policy … really did impede and
prevent advertising on Barnard’s
campus, and that as a result they
were missing out on a lot of
Barnard participation at events
and in terms of new members.”
The policy is also inefficient, said Jackie Ho, CC ’14 and
CC/SEAS vice president of the
Chinese Students Club, a group
under ABC.
“Fliering at Barnard is already
sort of slim because a lot of groups,
if they don’t have Barnard funding
… just don’t feel the need to flier
Barnard,” she said at Monday’s
meeting. “With this sort of policy, I feel like there’d be definitely
even less publicity for events and
stuff on Barnard’s campus, which
is really unfortunate.”
Kalathur said the main reason
ABC voted for noncompliance
was because “there was absolutely no communication whatsoever from the Barnard Office of
Student Life to ABC.”
Sarah Steinmann, BC ’13 and
the SGA VP of Student Activities,
said at Monday’s SGA meeting
that she attended one meeting
with administrators last spring
to discuss changes to the fliering policy. However, they mainly

discussed logistical changes, and
Steinmann said she “had no idea
this was coming.”
Some SGA representatives said
that they should not immediately
dismiss the policy.
“This is not something that
anybody here should decide,
‘Let’s throw the policy out,’” Aliza
Hassine, BC ’14 and junior class
president, said at the meeting.
“These are instances that happened on this campus that bothered people.”
Fine said that the administration provided him with only
one example of a bias incident
in the last two years, posters by
the all-male a cappella group the
Kingsmen.
“The Kingsmen is not an SGB
group but it was an incident that
they brought up and an incident
where I agree the fliers were inappropriate,” Fine said. “At the
same time, it’s one incident with
one group. I don’t think that requires a response of requiring that
every single student group’s fliers
be preapproved by the administration.” The Kingsmen declined
to comment.
“There has to be a large amount
of bias incidents on this campus …

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BY KELLY ECHAVARRIA
Columbia Daily Spectator

SPORTS, PAGE 2

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Lions offense sputters
on runs, third down

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Lincoln Center

Although its defense surrendered the
winning points in the final minute,
the football team’s offense was the
bigger culprit in Saturday’s loss.

New restaurant offers a place for
affordable yet sophisticated dining in
the arts nexus.

The date has been set when
Barnard students can log off eBear for good.
Barnard College Information
Technology plans to replace the
technologically outdated online academic portal with inside.barnard.
edu—but not until December 2014.
Carol Katzman, vice president for information technology
at Barnard said that students have
long voiced concerns over the limitations of eBear, which students
and faculty use to access academic
resources like registration, tuition
information, and faculty advising.
“It’s not always clear to navigate,” Fiona Wilson, BC ’16, said.
The site is organized by nine
tabs, but most of the functions that
students regularly use fall under
the registrar’s tab.
“There are a lot of tabs that I’ve
never visited,” Samima Habbsa,
BC ’13, said. “There are only two
things I actually use it for—to
check my grades and registration.”
Some of the site’s underused tabs include a Morningside
Heights directory and a message
board that has not been updated

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HEALTHCARE A new discretionary fund will cover abortions
if students choose not to use their own insurance policies.

GSAS students to design, teach undergraduate courses
A teaching program at the
Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences is allowing graduate students to pitch their own
seminar-size courses—and teach
them to undergraduates as early
as next spring.
Undergraduate students will
now be able to enroll in the approved seminars, which will be
capped at 15 students, in the next
registration period. Graduate
students have already been able
to design their own seminars for
the summer term, but this marks
a significant expansion of GSAS’
Teaching Scholars Program.
“I think the students felt
they wanted an opportunity
to develop their own syllabus,
something we weren’t quite letting them do,” said Alan Stewart,
director of graduate studies in
the English and comparative literature department. Previously,
doctoral students in the English
department were allowed only
to teach sections of University
Writing or serve as teaching
assistants under a professor,
Stewart said.
Ruaridh MacLeod, a fifthyear Ph.D. student in philosophy,
said that the expansion of the

since 2004.
But a fundamental resource
like an academic portal “should
be a gathering place for students,”
Katzman said. “I believe in an
electronic community.”
BCIT now has the technology
to create a superior online portal that will address these issues,
thanks to new developments from
its software company Ellucian,
Katzman said.
Still, the project is in only
the early stages of development.
Katzman said that BCIT is focused on building the basics of
the new website, what she called
the “essential portal.” A mockup should be available for students to view by next semester,
Katzman said.
“They’ll see a new environment where all their web-based
applications will be located and
branded for Barnard,” she said.
BCIT will then begin work on
adding functionality to the portal
so it can fully replace eBear, collaborating with faculty members
and administrators to make sure
the new portal fits their needs.
Until then, students will continue
to use eBear.
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program to the fall and spring semesters would provide graduate
students an opportunity to hone
their critical thinking and communication skills within their
disciplines.
“Teaching is the most concentrated form of learning, basically of coming to understanding
something,” he said. “Someone
who’s teaching a subject has to
be an expert in that subject.”
GSAS dean Carlos Alonso
said that proposals would be
evaluated on the basis of their
“overall intellectual quality”
and fit within departments.
Additionally, each proposal must
undergo a thorough review in
the Committee on Instruction,
the main executive academic
body for Columbia College and
the School of General Studies.
Students’ academic credentials
and backgrounds will also be
weighed in the consideration of
the proposal.
Individual departments also
have their own set of criteria.
Students “are given very clear
guidelines about what they have
to integrate,” said Pamela Smith,
the history department’s acting
chair.
History students have been
asked to use some sort of archives or resources within New

BY SAMANTHA COONEY
Columbia Daily Spectator

Columbia Health Services
has established a fund to cover
“special, time-sensitive healthcare needs,” including abortion,
in response to students’ concerns
that a change in the University’s
insurance policy this year leaves
students without guaranteed coverage for abortion.
The new confidential discretionary fund will cover students
when they choose not to avail
themselves of their own plan for
personal reasons, or when their
plan does not cover the desired
services, Health Services said in
a statement released to Spectator
on Monday.
Last year, abortions were covered by the required Columbia
Health Program fee, which all students pay, as well as the Columbia
Student Medical Insurance Plan.
But this year, coverage for abortions and three other services
were removed from the fee. That
leaves students who opt out of
the Columbia plan at risk of being
without coverage if their own insurance does not cover abortions.
It is unclear what other procedures the fund would support.
Health Services has not said exactly how much money will be available through the fund, or exactly
where that money will come from,
but only that it will not come from
the mandatory health fees. More
information would be available

in one to two weeks, said Scott
Wright, vice president of campus
services.
Zoe Ridolfi-Starr, CC ’15 and
Columbia Democrats’ lead activist, brought the issue to Health
Services’ attention on behalf of the
Dems after she noticed that coverage for abortion services was not a
required stipulation of the opt-out
waiver.
The creation of the fund grew
entirely out of student conversations, Columbia Health Assistant
Vice President Samuel Seward said
in an interview Monday. RidolfiStarr first brought up the issue to
University President Lee Bollinger
at his fireside chat on Oct. 2, and
after Bwog and Spectator reported on the policy change, other
students—with differing views
on abortion—approached Seward
with concerns about the policy.
Ridolfi-Starr said last week that
the CU Dems took up the cause not
only because of the loss of guaranteed abortion coverage, but in
particular because that previous
coverage under the Student Health
Fee was confidential. The policy
change has meant that students
on a plan with their parents would
be forced to notify their parents
of their decision to have an abortion, Ridolfi-Starr said. (Health
Services said that fewer than onethird of full-time students on the
Morningside Heights campus opt
out of the Columbia Health plan.)
Officials explained the rationale

York as well as to “talk about
how their course is innovative
pedagogically, so it gets them to
think,” Smith said.

By requiring students to tailor their proposals to suit the department’s criteria, Smith said,
graduate students have been able
to figure out how best to present
information to undergraduates.
“They were really taking into
account new trends in history
and trying to think about how
they would configure those new
trends so they would be interesting to undergraduate students,”
Smith said.
Some students were skeptical

that giving graduate students
more teaching time would be
beneficial to undergraduates.
“I would rather see curriculum created by professors than
by students because professors have experience,” Meghan
Haseman, a first-year master’s
student in history, said. “At the
level Columbia is operating, a
professor’s perspective is vital—grad students need an opportunity to have their curriculum vetted by professors without
undermining the education undergraduates are getting.”
Alonso noted that “the supervising faculty course sponsor will commit to visiting the
class at least twice during the
semester to evaluate and offer guidance and feedback
on the student’s pedagogical
performance.”
Smith said that she was confident in the students’ abilities to
design and execute a successful
course for undergraduates.
“Our graduate students are
fantastic. They are incredibly
accomplished when they come
here. Most of them have MAs—
they get a second MA when they
get here,” Smith said. “They’re
terrific. I think it’s a great opportunity for them.”
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OPINION, PAGE 4

EVENTS

WEATHER

Binder questions

Moving Images

Today

“I think the students
felt they wanted
an opportunity to
develop their own
syllabus.”
—Alan Stewart,
directory of English and
comparative literature
graduate studies

Tomorrow

Amanda Gutterman argues that
gender equality isn’t seen holistically.

Democracy by dissent
Yoni Golijov reminds Columbians
that protest is a democratic option.

omecoming weekend: An excuse
for the student
body to flood out
to the football
stadium and
KATIE
have a drunken
QUAN
good time with
young alumni. It’s In th e
never been about
the football game Zo n e
because, let’s face
it, we haven’t won a Homecoming
football game in years.
However, this past Saturday,
for a while it looked like
Columbia would actually pull
through this year. Unfortunately,
the Lions’ lead slipped away
in the last few minutes when
Dartmouth scored a game-winning touchdown and stopped the
Lions’ last attempt with an interception. With that, the crowds
flocked out of the stadium.
This is the second consecutive heartbreaking loss that the
Lions have sustained against an
Ivy League opponent. Just a week
before, the Lions fell in a tough
battle against Penn, losing 24-20.
With Columbia still winless in the
conference this year, fans are hoping that the Light Blue might be
able to string together a couple of
wins to end the season instead of
just one last hurrah, like last year’s
season-ending win over Brown.
On the other hand, just across
the Hudson River, the Scarlet
Knights are giving Rutgers’ fans
an exciting season to follow. It
might be because I am a New
Jersey resident and a lot of my
friends do go to Rutgers, but either way, something has made me
tune in to Rutgers’ football season.
Just two years ago, Rutgers
sported a disappointing season. But a couple of conference
games were not all that Rutgers
lost during 2010. After making a
tackle in a mid-season matchup
against Army, defensive tackle
Eric LeGrand could not get up.
People in MetLife Stadium were
heartbroken when it became apparent that LeGrand had been
paralyzed from the neck down.
For the months to come, LeGrand
received well-wishes from athletes across the nation, especially
from the Rutgers community.
Today, LeGrand has made
great progress in his recovery.
Although doctors originally
thought he would never breathe
without a ventilator, he got off
ventilator-support just a month

and a half after being paralyzed.
He now can move his shoulders
and has regained sensation to
most of his body. Coupled with
his recovery, the Scarlet Knights
have shaken off past shortcomings to put together one remarkable season.
Like the Light Blue, the Scarlet
Knights are playing under new a
head coach, Kyle Flood. Although
Pete Mangurian has been doing
his best to turn our football program around, Flood, as a firsttime head coach, has kicked off
his debut season at Rutgers with
an undefeated 7-0 record. He is
the only first-time head coach in
the nation this season to begin the
year 7-0. It is also one of the best
starts Rutgers’ football team has
had in program history, although
last year’s team, while it wasn’t
undefeated, went 9-4.
The Scarlet Knights picked
up their seventh win on Saturday
against Temple University. Going
into the game, Rutgers and
Temple were both undefeated in
the Big East Conference. After going down 10-0 in the first quarter,
Rutgers came back with 35 unanswered points in the second half
to take the game. Now on top of
the Big East Conference and nationally ranked at number 15, the
Scarlet Knights only have three
conference games left to play. Is it
possible that they will hang on to
their undefeated record?
Given their strong performance so far, Rutgers looks rather
comfortable against Cincinnati
and Pittsburgh. The team’s biggest challenge will be the last
game against Louisville. However,
home-field advantage may give
the Scarlet Knights the needed
edge in this final battle. For now,
Rutgers fans are delighted with
their team’s performance, and I
too will be watching quarterback
Gary Nova and running back
Jawan Jamison, hoping that they
will go undefeated. It’s a shame
that the Lions haven’t had the
Cinderella story this year that
I was hoping for, but maybe I
shouldn’t give up just yet. Who
knows, maybe they can extend
the miraculous win they had
against Brown last year to a multiple-win streak in the Ivy League
to end Mangurian’s first season.
Katie Quan is a Columbia College
senior majoring in financial
economics. She is a member of the
women’s varsity squash team.
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Governing boards debate
Barnard fliering policy
FLIERING from front page
for them to mandate a preapproval
of student speech on campus,” Fine
said in his presentation.
SGA president JungHee Hyun,
BC ’13, said that SGA met with administrators earlier in the semester and decided to take the rest of
the semester as a “review period.”
Last week, SGA sent out a survey
to its groups to get feedback about

the new policy, and representatives plan to talk to administrators
again after fall break.
“We understand the benefit of a
trial period,” Steinmann said after
the meeting. “That doesn’t mean
we want the policy to stay as is. We
want to do something that benefits
the student body.”
Emma Goss contributed
reporting.
lillian.chen@columbiaspectator.com

Activists support Health
Services abortion change
ABORTION from front page
behind the change for the first
time on Monday. According to
Seward, the four emergency services would have classified the
required fee as an insurance plan
in its own right under the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care
Act. Health Services would have
had to add even more services to
the fee, ballooning the price tag by
at least 60 percent this year, Seward
said. Instead, they removed those
services from coverage under the
required fee.
Ridolfi-Starr said she was
pleased with the speed of the administration’s response, although
she said she would need to see
more details of the plan before she
could determine whether it goes
far enough in providing coverage.
“Should this program meet our
needs, I’m actually pleasantly surprised,” Ridolfi-Starr said. “I had
been gearing up for a longer haul.
It’s refreshing, I think, to see the
administration really respond to
student concerns in an efficient
way.”
Julia Salazar, CC ’13 and president of Columbia Right to Life, said
her group had not been in contact
with Health Services about the
discretionary fund but supported
the decision because the required

fees would not support abortions.
She called the discretionary fund a
“really good solution.”
“It also doesn’t demand that every student in the Columbia community contribute to something
that they may not be comfortable
supporting, that may be a moral issue for them, as it would be for me,”
Salazar said.
Last week, Ridolfi-Starr criticized the administration for not
publicizing the change enough.
Wright said that while Health
Services announced the terms of
the policy at orientation events
and on its website, it did not “send
anything out to the community
saying, ‘You should go look for this
information.’”
A section titled “What’s New for
2012-2013” on the Health Services
website notes that “Certain services formerly covered under the
Columbia Health Fee will now
be covered under the Columbia
Student Medical Insurance Plan.
As a result, the Columbia Health
Fee for the 2012-2013 plan year will
be $824 reduced from $900.”
Seward said that he considered his office very receptive to
students’ input. “It became clear
to us that students had a concern,
and we hope this takes us a long
way towards meeting that,” he said.
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Senior quarterback Sean Brackett and the offense were forced into many third downs without their running game.

Lions offense ineffective on runs, third down
BY MYLES SIMMONS
Spectator Senior Staff Writer
On a Saturday full of upsets in
the Ivy League, Columbia football (1-5, 0-3 Ivy) failed to pull off
one of its own.
The Lions came
close, but once
in
again they could
focus
not hold on to a
late lead in the
fourth quarter,
giving up a touchdown in the
final moments to lose the game.
But putting the loss squarely on the defense’s late-game
downfall fails to tell the whole
story of Columbia’s 12th straight
Homecoming loss, this one coming at the hands of Dartmouth
(4-2, 2-1 Ivy). As they have all
season, the Lions struggled to
convert on third down for much
of the game. Junior running back
Marcorus Garrett also uncharacteristically failed to put up big
numbers for the Lions, adding to
their Homecoming difficulties.
Head coach Pete Mangurian
didn’t blame the loss squarely
on the last three minutes of the
game, which included a eightplay, 91-yard drive that resulted
in a Big Green touchdown.
“There’s any one of 10, 15, 20

plays that could’ve gone another
way and changed the outcome of
the game, but that’s the way the
game is played,” Mangurian said.
The offense had one of its
toughest days statistically. The
first quarter was especially
poor for the Lions, as their 14
plays accounted for only eight
total yards, with just one first
down. Garrett, who came into
the game leading the league in
rushing yards, ran the ball three
times for just six yards in the
first period. Senior quarterback
Sean Brackett had a tough time
as well, completing just three of
his eight passes for six yards.
Although the Light Blue was
able to put together a seven-play,
47-yard touchdown drive at the
end of the half to go up 10-7,
the numbers still weren’t pretty. Even though Brackett had a
much better second quarter—he
went seven-for-10 for 89 yards,
including a touchdown pass to
freshman wide receiver Chris
Connors—Garrett couldn’t find
any room to run. The running
back finished the second quarter with just 14 yards on eight
carries.
“When we’re doing well offensively, we’re making plays,”
Brackett said. “That was the

biggest thing, just make plays. It
wasn’t doing anything special.”
But the Lions just couldn’t
make enough of those plays.
They finished the day with
just 14 first downs and 220
total yards—80 on the ground
and 140 through the air. Garrett
ended the day with 72 yards
on 20 carries, an average of 3.6
yards per carry. It was just the
third time all season the running back had been held to
under 100 rushing yards in a
game. Through three quarters,
though, he had just 26 yards on
13 carries, and his longest run
to that point was four yards.
“He’s a great back,”
Dartmouth linebacker Bronson
Green said of Garrett. “We knew
that going in, and something we
stressed as a defense was stopping the run. Make them beat us
over the top, make them make
some plays through the air—we
have got to stop the run.”
One of the consequences of
Dartmouth stopping the run
was it put Columbia in thirdand-long situations. On the day,
the Light Blue made four of its
15 third down chances. But the
Lions only converted on one
of their nine third-down plays
where they had seven yards or

more to go.
“That’s huge. That’s the
out down,” Green, who had
10 tackles on the day, said of
Dartmouth’s defensive fortitude on third down. “Thirdand-short or third-and-long, you
have to be ready to make plays.
And we were lucky enough to get
them off the field on third down,
which I think is huge.”
Third down has been a problem all season for the Lions, as
they currently rank last in the
league in third-down conversions. They’ve made just 24 of
their 93 attempts, a rate of 25.8
percent.
Mangurian credited the Big
Green’s defense for its effectiveness on Saturday, saying that
the Light Blue’s inability to stop
Dartmouth’s defensive front four
hurt the home team.
“There’s certain things you
need to do to beat this team,” he
said. “And if you don’t execute
and do those things properly,
you’re not going to beat them. I
don’t care who you are, I don’t
care what your style of play is.
For us to beat that team, we
had to play a certain way, and
we didn’t do that consistently
enough.”
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Princeton shocks Harvard, remains undefeated in Ivies
BY ROBERT WREN GORDON
Spectator Senior Staff Writer
In a weekend filled with shocking upsets for Ivy League football, expected last-place finisher
Princeton overtook Harvard for
the top spot in the
around
the
conference, while
league
Dartmouth and
Brown rounded
out the top half of
the Ancient Eight.
brown
After being shut out at
Princeton, the Bears (4-2, 1-2 Ivy)
earned their first Ivy win of the
season at home against Cornell
this weekend, topping the Big
Red, 21-14. The Bears never trailed
during the match, scoring early
with a touchdown in the middle
of the first quarter. Brown maintained the 7-0 lead through halftime and into the third quarter.
Despite briefly tying the game
with a touchdown of its own in
the third quarter, Cornell was unable to keep pace with the Bears,
as fifth-string junior running
back Jordan Reisner rushed for
193 yards, including two consecutive touchdowns in the second
half. Although Cornell made it a
one-possession game late in the
fourth, its effort proved too little
too late. After the big Ivy win, the
Bears head to Philadelphia to face
Penn this Saturday.
cornell
After narrowly beating
Monmouth last week, the Big Red
(3-3, 1-2 Ivy) was looking to earn
its second Ivy win against Brown
on the road this past weekend.
Unfortunately for the Big Red and
superstar junior quarterback Jeff
Mathews, Brown was led by its
fifth-string running back to a 21-14
win. Cornell struggled offensively
throughout the game, going one
for 13 on third down and gained

zero net yards on the ground. After
starting the season 2-1, the Big Red
has now gone 1-2 in the last three
weeks. Cornell hosts Princeton
this Saturday as they look to rebound from the loss.
dartmouth
Dartmouth (4-2, 2-1 Ivy) pulled
off a come-from-behind road win
this past weekend at Columbia,
beating the Lions 21-16 thanks to
a last-minute touchdown. With a
two-point lead—thanks to a missed
point-after attempt—in the final
three minutes, the Lions turned
the ball over to the Big Green.
After throwing an incompletion
on first and 10 from his own nineyard line, sophomore quarterback
Alex Park went on to complete six
consecutive passes, including the
winning touchdown toss to junior
tight end Dean Bakes, while also
rushing for an additional 13 yards.
The final scoring drive covered 91
yards in barely a minute and a half
and gave the Big Green its second
conference win.
harvard
Harvard (5-1, 2-1 Ivy) began
Saturday’s game in typical fashion,
jumping out to a 20-point first-half
lead over the Tigers. The Crimson
carried its lead into the third quarter. But towards the middle of the
quarter, the tide began to turn. The
Tigers went on a 10-point run,
narrowing the Harvard lead to 10
points. Harvard, not to be outdone,
then matched Princeton’s run by
putting another 14 consecutive
points on the scoreboard, making
the game 34-10 at the beginning
of the fourth quarter. With their
backs against the wall, the Tigers
went on an impressive and shocking 29-point run, the most fourth
quarter points allowed by an opponent in Harvard’s history. After
Saturday’s 39-34 loss, the Crimson
stays on the road, heading to New
Hampshire to face Dartmouth this
weekend.

penn
The Red and Blue lost its first
conference game of the season
this past weekend at Yale, falling
27-13 to the Bulldogs. After taking
a 7-0 lead in the second quarter,
Penn fell behind as Yale went on a
10-point rally to end the half with
a 10-7 lead. The Bulldogs opened
up the second half with another
touchdown, putting the Quakers
down by 10. Penn was unable to
keep pace with Yale in the second
half, scoring only two field goals
compared to Yale’s two touchdowns and a field goal.
princeton
With only 13 seconds to go, the
Tigers (4-2, 3-0 Ivy) shocked the
Ancient Eight. A 36-yard touchdown pass to Roman Wilson and
a successful point after attempt
put Princeton up, 39-34 over the
reigning Ivy League champions.
After trailing 20-0 at halftime,
sophomore quarterback Connor
Michelsen, who was named the
Ivy League’s Offensive Player of
the Week, threw for 237 yards
to help the Tigers mount an
unbelievable comeback to stay
undefeated in the conference.
Princeton sophomore quarterback Quinn Epperly threw the
winning touchdown pass. After
Saturday’s thriller, the Tigers
head north to Ithaca to take on
Cornell.
yale
The Bulldogs (2-4, 1-2 Ivy) won
their first conference matchup of
the season this past weekend as
they hosted Penn in New Haven.
Despite losing freshman starting
quarterback Eric Williams during
the game after a hit, a team effort
by backup quarterbacks Derek
Russell and Logan Scott, along
with a healthy ground performance and strong defensive effort,
guided the Bulldogs to victory.
The Yale defense allowed the visitors only 13 points, a season low

for a team that has struggled on
defense this season. The backup
quarterbacks combined for two
touchdown passes, with Russell
scoring another touchdown on
the ground in the fourth quarter.
The win puts Yale at 1-2 ahead
of its matchup at Columbia this
weekend.
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IVY

1

3-0

2
2-1

3
2-1

4
1-2

5
2-1

6
1-2

7
1-2

8
0-3

TEAM
princeton

TIGERS

Princeton leaps ahead of
Harvard thanks to its win in
their showdown on Saturday,
continuing the Tigers’ surprising season.

harvard

CRIMSON

Although Harvard gave
up a big lead in the final
10 minutes to the Tigers,
it did dominate the game
otherwise.

dartmouth

BIG GREEN
Dartmouth ultimately took
care of business against
Columbia, although the
game was closer than an Ivy
contender might like.

brown

BEARS

Brown showed a strong
rushing game and became
the third Ivy team to hold
Cornell to 15 points or
fewer.

penn

QUAKERS
Penn mustered over 400
yards of total offense, but
could not turn those yards
into points against Yale.

cornell

BIG RED

Ranking only fourth
in points in Ivy games,
Cornell’s lethal offense has
not been there to bail out its
defense.

yale

BULLDOGS
Yale picked up its first win
with an impressive win
over Penn, despite losing its
starting quarterback.

columbia

LIONS

Another week, another near
miss for the Lions, whose
defense keeps games close
but whose offense can’t
score enough.

GRUB A DUB DUB | Marcus Samuelsson’s American Table, located near Lincoln Center, is a go-to for a cheap meal before a show.

American Table a tasty, convenient stop for theatergoers
BY ALLISON SCHLISSEL
Spectator Food Critic
Finally, a decent, convenient place to grab a
bite at Lincoln Center. Any Columbia student
who has experienced the toil of trying to find a
reasonably priced, quick restaurant before going
to a show or performance can avoid the lessthan-desirable sandwiches in the theater with
this new spot: American Table Café and Bar.
Located in Alice Tully Hall, a block away
from the Metropolitan Opera, New York City
Ballet, and New York Philharmonic, Marcus
Samuelsson has expanded his New York dining
options to three: Ginny’s Supper Club and Red
Rooster in Harlem, and now American Table
on the Upper West Side.
decor
One of the best parts of the restaurant experience is the space itself. American Table
is situated in an open, clear room with a high
slanted ceiling, hardwood floors, and three of
the four walls made of windows with the fourth
wall of red wood. The furniture is modern and
stylish, and pleasant lounge music plays in the
background, giving the place a relaxed vibe.

service
The service is friendly and quick. You order
at the counter and then the waitstaff brings the
food to your table.
The food is nicely presented and tastes as
good as it looks, while the white ceramic dishes
give the food presentation a clean finish.

The mushroom gravy is served
on the side, but the sandwich
is flavorful enough on its own.
food
The portions are not huge, which is perfect for
the theatergoer who cannot carry leftovers for
the entire night. I ordered the Turkey Meatball
Sandwich with Cranberry Sauce and Mushroom
Gravy—it served as the perfect fall-flavored dish
as we slowly transition out of this Indian Summer.
The bread had a chewy texture which balanced out
the soft contents of the inside. The cranberry sauce
was just the right amount of sweet, complementing the savory meatballs instead of overshadowing

them, as cranberry sauce tends to do. The turkey
meatballs had the tiniest shreds of carrots, which
made me feel accomplished for incorporating
vegetables into my diet. More substantially, the
cooked purple cabbage added another dimension
of sweetness and a hint of crunch to the sandwich. The mushroom gravy is served on the side,
but the sandwich is flavorful enough on its own. I
appreciated the gravy on the side, because all too
often, sandwiches are drowned in gravy.
drink
American Table has a full bar and a decent
wine list if you desire a cocktail before a show.
The space is also good for having a coffee in the
middle of the day, as the atmosphere is refreshing and relaxed.
price
The prices are on the more expensive side,
but are still reasonable considering its location and the quality of food. Dishes range from
about $10-$20.
If you want to go for a pleasant, filling, and
quick meal, Marcus Samuelsson’s American
Table Café and Bar is a safe bet.
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One former General Studies student is making
a name for himself choreographing critically acclaimed work for the New York City Ballet.
“Columbia is where it all started for me,” explained Justin Peck, a 25-year-old New York City
Ballet corps de ballet dancer and choreographer.
His new ballet, “Year of the Rabbit,” recently premiered to many accolades—the New York Times
labeled it a “true coming-out party.”
In February this year, New York City Ballet
commissioned two works from Peck: “Year of the
Rabbit,” which ran at the New York City Ballet in
October, and another work, “In Creases,” which
was set to the music of Philip Glass and premiered
in July. For someone as young as Peck, a commission from New York City Ballet is a rare honor.
Sandwiched in between a work by Benjamin
Millepied and another by Christopher Wheeldon—
both established choreographers—“Year of the
Rabbit” featured seven movements, each named
after a sign in the Chinese zodiac. Teresa Reichlen,
a principal at New York City Ballet who studied at
Barnard, was a featured dancer. The piece received
high praise from critics and multiple standing ovations from the audience.
Peck, who was briefly a part-time student
at GS a few years ago, said he took advantage
of the professional dancers who were just then
forming the Columbia Ballet Collaborative, a
campus ballet company, to explore the world of
choreography. “It was a big learning experience
for me because you can’t really study to be a choreographer,” Peck said. “You just have to try it.
It was about figuring out if I was interested, and
then also what sort of choreographer I wanted
to be and what I wanted to accomplish through
movement.”
His first piece for CBC, “A Teacup Plunge,” was
“a short four-minute pas de deux—the first performance at Miller Theatre.” Peck choreographed it
for Russell Janzen and Reichlen. A year later, “I
did another pas de deux for CBC, and that was the
first time I discovered this body of music that was
based on the Chinese zodiac.” Peck called it “Year
of the Rabbit,” although he noted that the choreography “actually had nothing to do with the City
Ballet version. I used the same body of music but
completely different movement.”
But his time as a student dancer was short-lived.
Peck said he was forced to leave Columbia due
to the difficulty of balancing his schedule as a fulltime dancer and choreographer with that of a student. “Everything at City Ballet is really involving—and to put in the amount of time needed to
do well at Columbia ... it’s not doable.”
During his time at Columbia, Peck said
that he “was just trying out various subjects”
academically.
“I’d like to return, for sure, but it’s up in the
air at this point,” he said.
After leaving Columbia, he also started working with the New York Choreographic Institute.
“It’s kind of funny,” Peck remarked, “because
the first time I ever showed any of my ideas
from my work at the New York Choreographic
Institute for a performance at the Miller Theatre,
the Choreographic Institute was doing this 10th
anniversary performance and it happened to be
at Miller.”
Peck plans to continue choreographing, but is
currently taking a much-needed break for the next
few months now that New York City Ballet’s fall
season is over. “I have a few other projects in the
works,” Peck said, “but I can’t officially announce
anything at this point.”
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SoA professor James Wood talks consciousness, creativity to packed audience
BY ZOE MILLER
Columbia Daily Spectator
Those not lucky enough to get into School of
the Arts adjunct professor James Wood’s graduate writing workshop this semester had the opportunity to hear the award-winning journalist
and author speak Thursday night.
Wood, who has taught at Kenyon College
and Harvard University, spoke on Oct. 18 about
contemporary consciousness, and about how a
contemporary author might “go about putting
it on the page.”

Wood broached the lecture’s topic by asking, “What is contemporary consciousness, and
what does it look like?” He went on to talk in
detail about the two types of consciousness—
external and internal—through which authors
develop their characters. External consciousness entailed implied interiority, while internal
consciousness entailed examined, or articulated, interiority. Wood expressed his points
clearly by citing prominent examples from
the Bible and from luminaries such as Samuel
Beckett, Muriel Spark, Virginia Woolf, and
Norman Rush. Before Wood began speaking,
papers with the literary excerpts he was going

to cover were circulated to audience members
so that they could follow along.
The first example of external consciousness
Wood discussed was the sacrifice of Isaac—
external in that it is, as Wood said, “reticent,
but fraught with background,” since Abraham’s
only human gesture is the lifting of his eyes.
In contrast, Wood provided the story of King
David and his son Absalom as a biblical example of internal consciousness, since it is written
in self-reflective terminology (such as “he said
in his heart”).
Then, he then cited a more modern example
from the 19th century—the point in literary history when the notion of stream-of-consciousness writing became popularized slowly, but
surely.
“In ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ it takes 80 pages
for Elizabeth Bennet to ‘say to herself,’” Wood
said. “Flaubert and James open up the mind.
What we don’t find in Austen is what Elizabeth
had for breakfast or how much the green house
is going to cost. You can’t separate form from
content.”
The concepts of external and internal consciousness as diametrically opposed “camps”
emerged soon after. When it comes to contemporary consciousness, Wood said, “There aren’t
any rules and there don’t need to be any camps.”
What a writer must do, however, is avoid implied
interiority from becoming too flattened and articulated interiority from becoming too stabilized.
Wood said, “In your own writing, try—try to work
out why the alive stuff’s alive.”
This was Wood’s third time giving a SoA
Creative Writing Lecture in the six years since
the lecture series’ inception. In fact, Wood was
the first guest lecturer. The third time was, indeed, a charm. “I’ve never spoken to a bigger
overflow crowd,” he said.
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FULL HOUSE | Adjunct Professor James Wood talks to students at a creative writing lecture, dispensing thoughts on the topic of contemporary conciousness in works from the Bible to Austen.

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Playing softball with
gender equality

“I

n what new ways do you plan to
rectify the inequalities in the workplace, specifically regarding females
making only 72 percent of what their
male counterparts earn?”
Not a single woman I have spoken
to at Columbia has openly cited gender
as a reason for her choice of career, as a AMANDA
GUTTERMAN
barometer of how much she expects to
be paid, or to explain having been denied a job or internship. For this reason, Senior
I was surprised watching the town hall- Citizen,
style second presidential debate when
Junior
a young woman asked the candidates
Employee
about gender inequality. Her question
surprised me by awakening a concern I
had nearly forgotten. The Columbia societies for women’s
this and that had, paradoxically, and by no fault of their
own, allowed me to file the issue of women’s workplace
equality in the back of my mind. There it stewed, with the
rest of the well-intentioned enterprises that advertise in the
stalls of ladies’ bathrooms in Butler.
My surprise faded when I realized that the question,
and both candidates’ answers, were as banal and un-radical
as a poster in the bathroom: at best, an outdated gesture at
inclusivity; at worst, an arbitrary pretext for the candidates
to prove they are sensitive, reasonable guys who can vaguely
agree on something. Who, after all, is willing to say that
women and men should not be compensated equally for doing the same job? President Obama and Governor Romney
both promised to fix the problem—Obama through education and refusing to “tolerate discrimination,” and Romney
by personally hiring women from his now-infamous “binders” and by growing the economy. Of course, prejudice
against women has flourished in the best of economies, and
Obama’s answer about discrimination and education is an
incomplete explanation for the income gap. In other words,
each candidate used the question to hyperlink back to his
platform, leaving the underlying causes of gender inequality
unmentioned.
However, in the defense of Romney and Obama, it would
have been hard to address gender equality in response to a
question essentially about numbers. The young woman in
the audience introduced her question as one about how to
“rectify inequality in the workplace,” but lost no time moving on to the real question: How will you make the numbers
add up for me? This is not a bad approach in itself, but its
effect is to narrow the conversation about gender equality
so that success and failure can only be expressed in percentages. What follows is a false logic: When women earn 100
percent as much as men, inequality will have come to an
end. If a statistical question is allowed to replace a cultural
question, a statistical solution could potentially replace a
cultural solution without addressing any of the cultural reasons why women are paid less for doing the same job.
In her TED talk, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg provides truly surprising statistics about workplace equality, but also explains what she believes to be the cultural
factors behind the problem. Of the 190 heads of state
worldwide, she says, only nine are women. Women make
up only 13 percent of parliaments. Women hold only 15
percent of board-level positions, and, since 2002, there
has been no increase, only a slight decline. For big companies to hire women methodically “from binders,” or
crunch the numbers for more “flexibility” in order to join
Bain & Co., MetLife, and Merck on the Working Mother
100 Best Companies list, might be considered a good start.
However, it fails to address the question about culture.
The “fix” Sandberg suggests is personal and behavioral,
and by extension, social. She explains that “women are
not making it to the top of any profession anywhere in the
world” partly because they “systematically underestimate
their own abilities.”
Instead of negotiating their salaries, according to
Sandberg, women tend to accept what they are offered.
Instead of insisting on “sitting at the table” and making
their voices heard, they demur at speaking out of turn.
(Interestingly, a friend’s boss in the financial industry told
her this is why he prefers hiring women for administrative work: They are “detail-oriented and careful” and not
loud or self-willed—in other words, because women are
obedient.) But it would be a mistake to say that Sandberg
blames gender inequality in the workplace on the failure of
women to present themselves well. Rather, she objects to
a culture that, consciously or unconsciously, sets counterproductive standards for female behavior. She refers to a
study at Harvard where male and female students are given
a story to read about a female CEO who “networked” her
way to the top of a company—only in one version, the CEO
was named Heidi, and in the other, it had been changed to
Howard. The students described Howard as praiseworthy
and likeable, but Heidi they found to be calculating and
hungry. Unfortunately, Sandberg explains, “success and
likeability are positively correlated for men and negatively
correlated for women.”
Though the study Sandberg mentions was able to use
statistics as a kind of cultural gauge, the degree to which
standards of “likeable” female behavior reflect onto community that reflects back onto the individual woman is hard to
quantify. It is no help that Michelle Obama and Ann Romney
have become purveyors of cultish, total motherhood—brilliantly satirized by Jenny Allen in her New Yorker piece “I’m
a Mom.” What should be most surprising about the lackluster question in the town hall debate, and about the candidates’ lackluster responses, is not that men and women are
still treated unequally in the workplace. Really, it is surprising that public figures can get away with using gender equality as a cover for self-promotion, and with using statistics to
avoid answering a question that is, whether or not we agree
with Sandberg, essentially about culture.
At Columbia, our professors and programs such as
those hosted by the Center for Career Education train us
to be conscious of the way we present ourselves, and to be
conscious of the way we participate in the culture Sandberg
describes. On the first day of her wonderful Barnard literature course, I remember, Mary Gordon brought the class to
an abrupt halt when a student introduced herself as Sarah.
“Everyone is named Sarah!” she cried. Professor Gordon
objected to what she considered the distinctly female habit
of introducing oneself by first name only, even in a formal
setting. The criticism seemed harsh at the time—the lastname-less Sarah was shrinking in her seat—but contextualized in politics’ empty answers about gender equality and
Sheryl Sandberg’s (often unlikable) excoriating critique of
female behavior in the workplace. I, for one, am grateful for
reminders like Gordon’s.
Amanda Gutterman is a Columbia College senior
majoring in English. Senior Citizen, Junior Employee
runs alternate Tuesdays.

We are the alternative

A

University email said last month,
“Registering to vote is the most
straightforward way to engage in the
democratic process.”
Yet we only have Election Day
free to vote because of students’
straightforward engagement in
YONI
the democratic process in 1968. It’s
GOLIJOV
likely in that year Columbia was
the most democratic it’s ever been.
The Local
Mass rallies, occupations, strikes, and
University
weeks of alternative classes made
the administration finally respond to
students’, workers’, and Harlemites’ demands. According
to a history of the 1968 protests compiled by Frank da
Cruz, a student at the time, the occupation of Low Library
was “one long meeting governed by ‘Robert’s Rules of
Order.’” The protesters stopped construction of the
segregated gym on confiscated public land. They ended,
temporarily, the University’s weapons contracts. They
caused the administration to create the University Senate
and the Student Governing Board. And these are just a few
of the enormous changes that students won through their
straightforward engagement in democracy. Why couldn’t
they engage in more polite methods of straightforward
democracy? Petitions, for instance? They did. Six weeks
before the strike, students presented a petition bearing
nearly 2,000 signatures calling on Columbia to cease
classified war research. The University responded by
placing the students who presented the petition on
disciplinary probation.

The only democracy we’re told
we have is picking one of two
corporate-funded, party-groomed
candidates.
The democracy of protest proved more straightforward
and effective, but President Barack Obama did, in his
commencement speech at Barnard, acknowledge that
it was direct action that has caused the most important
changes in society: “Young folks who marched and
mobilized and stood up and sat in, from Seneca Falls to
Selma to Stonewall … That’s how we achieved women’s
rights … voting rights … workers’ rights … gay rights.”
But then why would federal agencies coordinate
with police and mayors—Democratic and Republican
alike—in a nationwide crackdown on Occupy, a
movement that fights for issues that are largely in line
with what Obama touted when he was on the campaign
trail in 2008? Dozens, if not hundreds, of Barnard and
Columbia students, faculty, and staff joined in the Occupy
movement, doing exactly what Obama told us to do in
his Barnard commencement speech, but we faced arrests
and beatings, which were at least tacitly approved by his
administration.
OK, even though Obama coordinated a crackdown
on Occupy, at least he acknowledged protest as the main
motor of change, and what Obama did to crush Occupy
isn’t nearly as bad as what George W. Bush did or John
McCain would have done, right?

OCTOBER 23, 2012
Nevermind that the American Civil Liberties Union
published a report last year detailing how Obama has
continued almost all of Bush’s destructions of civil
liberties, and in many cases, Obama has even increased
these frightening policies. John Rizzo, a 34-year lawyer
for the Central Intelligence Agency, has said Obama has
“changed virtually nothing” from Bush’s anti-civil-liberties
policies.
So maybe Obama is continuing and expanding Bush’s
policies of spying, torturing, imprisoning, assassinating,
and more. Still, won’t Obama be better for higher
education than Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan will be, as
Spectator’s editorial board pointed out last week?
Obama’s only increased Pell Grant funding for one
year. Instead of a long-term solution, Obama secured just
enough revenue for the increase until after the election,
then, well, we’ll see. And while Ryan’s budget plan makes
devastating cuts to important spending, Obama’s doesn’t
increase spending, it only makes slightly smaller cuts.
In a February piece for the Financial Times, professor
Jeffrey Sachs compared Obama’s and Ryan’s budget
plans and found that, “The important fact is this. Both
sides are committed to significant cuts in government
programs” such as “education; environmental protection;
child nutrition; job re-training; transition to low-carbon
energy; and infrastructure.” Like on so many issues, it’s
not Republicans-cut, Democrats-save—it’s Democratscut-just-a-little-less. And while we are all in college now,
it’s our schooling before that prepares us for this, and
Obama’s Race to The Top, far from reversing Bush’s No
Child Left Behind, has in fact accelerated high-stakes
testing and racist disparities in schools. Republicans and
Democrats are on the same side on this fight, as Ryan’s
and Romney’s support for Rahm Emanuel during the
Chicago teacher’s strike showed. And while Chicago
teachers fought back, Obama, who promised in 2008 to
march with workers on their picket lines, was nowhere to
be seen.
As Election Day nears, we face a heightening barrage
of invitations, implorations, and even commands to
vote-vote-vote! But can we accept voting as the most
straightforward way to engage in the democratic process
when most states are already “blue” or “red”? When the
archaic and undemocratic electoral college still exists?
When, even though a candidate wins the majority of
the votes, as Al Gore did in 2000, the Supreme Court,
an unelected body, can give the presidency to someone
else? And when the only democracy we’re told we have
is picking one of two corporate-funded, party-groomed
candidates who agree on so much more than they disagree
on, once every four years?
Columbia community members have a long and
inspiring tradition of making another choice: ourselves.
We are the alternative. Whether it’s striking for free
speech in the ’30s, organizing against Apartheid in the
’80s, or occupying Low to save need-blind admissions
in 1992, it’s the daily self-activity of masses of ordinary
people like us that has been and continues to be the most
straightforward way to engage in the democratic process,
and to win. As Columbia alum and highly esteemed
historian Howard Zinn said regarding elections, “There’s
hardly anything more important that people can learn
than the fact that the really critical thing isn’t who is
sitting in the White House, but who is sitting in.”
Yoni Golijov is a Columbia College senior majoring in
creative writing. He is a member of the Barnard-Columbia
International Socialist Organization. The Local University
runs alternate Tuesdays.

ilana schulder

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
To the Editor,
Saturday’s loss to Dartmouth was disappointing, but
other things went well for Columbia that day.
First, many admirers of Coach Campbell (now Chair of
the Trustees) attended the splendid dedication ceremony
for the new Campbell Sports Center. The great affection
and respect for the coach was manifest.
Second, an unusually large number of Old Blues happy to
be reunited with longtime friends and mentors—and even
by administrators not often seen at Baker Field—celebrated
the highly successful Alumni Homecoming Reunion.
Third, the large turnout of students, faculty, and alumni
almost filled the stands at Kraft Field, with the donor Bob

Kraft, CC ’63, trustee, there in person to attest again to his
continuing generous support of Columbia athletics.
Fourth, the spruced-up and spirited Columbia band gave
an especially fine performance in the stands and on the field.
The football team’s great effort, despite the last-minute
loss, made this a great Ivy League game, and encourages
us to believe that a turnaround is still coming. We wish
them well.
Your touch football emeritus of South Field (1937-1941),
Ted de Bary
William Theodore de Bary
John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University and
Provost Emeritus
Oct. 22, 2012

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